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“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

For Maureen Sun Transparency Is Not Always a Virtue

By Maureen Sun | September 5, 2024

Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 5, 2024

Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Creation Lake”

By Jane Ciabattari | September 4, 2024

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Megan Pinto on Mindfulness and Contemplation as Literary Practice

By Megan Pinto | September 4, 2024

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Explores the Anglo-Indian Author’s “Departmental Ditties”

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay | September 4, 2024

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

Iheoma Nwachukwu on Food, Language and the Immigrant Experience

By Iheoma Nwachukwu | September 4, 2024

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How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

By Josephine Quinn | September 4, 2024

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould's Secret

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 4, 2024

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | September 3, 2024

A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

Caroline Carlson Shares What to Pack in Your Kids' Backpack This Month

By Caroline Carlson | September 3, 2024

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s <em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> and <em>The Fortress of Solitude</em>

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude

“There has always been this energy, back-of-the-store energy... Lethem has channeled that energy.”

By Charles Yu | September 3, 2024

Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped <em>The New Yorker</em>’s Writers

Editing Without Ego: How Katharine S. White Quietly Shaped The New Yorker’s Writers

Amy Reading on Artistic Collaboration, Egotistical Male Editors, and the Idea of the Genius Editor

By Amy Reading | September 3, 2024

Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This September

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Raymond Antrobus, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kinsale Drake, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | September 3, 2024

Edwidge Danticat! Rachel Kushner! Danzy Senna! 27 new books out today.

Edwidge Danticat! Rachel Kushner! Danzy Senna! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 3, 2024

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Jo Hamya, Elif Shafak, Yoko Ogawa, and More

By Book Marks | August 30, 2024

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Christopher Isherwood, Indie Bookstores, Audre Lorde, and More

By Book Marks | August 30, 2024

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